Heaven’s Gate, India

Heaven’s Gate is a new UFO sectarian religious movement co-founded by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles in the early 1970s in the United States1. He is known for the mass suicide of 39 followers, which took place March 26, 1997 during the passage of the comet Hale-Bopp when they believed that their souls would join a supposed spaceship hiding behind the comet carrying Jesus.